Slow, Deep and Hard is the debut studio album of Type O Negative, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records. The album has a rawness that was prominent in Peter Steele's previous band, Carnivore, but it incorporates elements that became standard for Type O Negative, merging styles including doom metal, gothic rock, new wave and industrial music.
Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album with heavy amounts of black humor, based on a failed relationship in which the vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele was involved. In keeping with the band's notable humor, the album's cover artwork is a blurred image of sexual penetration. According to guitarist Kenny Hickey, Steele based a riff of Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2 (later known as Gravity) from the theme song of the 1964 American sitcom "The Munsters".
Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album with heavy amounts of black humor, based on a failed relationship in which the vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele was involved. In keeping with the band's notable humor, the album's cover artwork is a blurred image of sexual penetration. According to guitarist Kenny Hickey, Steele based a riff of Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2 (later known as Gravity) from the theme song of the 1964 American sitcom "The Munsters".
Tracklist
Side A
1. Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity
2. Der Untermensch
Side B
1. Xero Tolerance
Side C
1. Prelude to Agony
2. Glass Walls of Limbo (Dance Mix)
Side D
1. The Misinterpretation of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences
2. Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10⁻⁸ cm⁻³ gm⁻¹ sec⁻²
3. Hey Pete (Pete's Ego Trip Version)